A BLOG

The Dagdha was the Father God of the Tuath de Dannan, famed for his magic Harp, mighty Club and bottomless Cauldron, from which none left unsatisfied. My cauldron is for pouring my excess geekery into and hopefully will make a nourishing brain-soup.

Hope you like it.

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Never being one to miss a chance to jump on a bandwagon, I was inspired by Joe Hill's top fifty favorite books to do the same here. Like Joe's, these are in no order of preference, but unlike his, I couldn't be bothered to list the authors alphabetically- I pretty much put them down as they came to me.

I'm sure more will come to me as I think of them

Foucault's Pendulum • Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose • Umberto Eco

Fragile Things • Neil Gaiman

The Lord of the Rings • J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion • J.R.R. Tolkien

The Sword of Rhiannon • Leigh Brackett

Irish Folk and Fairy Tales • Michael Scott

Duma Key • Stephen King

IT • Stephen King

The Lankhmar Stories • Fritz Lieber

Something Wicked this way comes • Ray Bradbury

Caves of Steel • Issac Azimov

I, Robot • Issac Azimov

Chronicles of Amber • Roger Zelazny

The Tain • Thomas Kinsella (trans.)

The Complete Fiction • H.P. Lovecraft

American Gods • Neil Gaiman

The Chronicles of Conan • Robert E. Howard

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen • Alan Garner

Elric of Melnibone • Michael Moorcock

Le Morte d'Arthur • Thomas Malory

The Three Musketeers • Alexandre Dumas

The White Goddess • Robert Graves

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos • Ramsey Campbell (ed.)

Day of the Triffids • John Wyndham

Earth Abides • George R. Stewart

A Game of Thrones • George R. R. Martin

The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith • Clark Ashton Smith

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Reaper miniatures released a range of unpainted plastic minis a few months back, substantially cheaper then their white metal equivalents. Off the back of the success of this line, they've launched a Kickstarter to accelerate their release schedule, and as of this post, have almost doubled their initial funding goal. Check it out, it's pretty neat.

Friday, July 20, 2012

The original articles, still available for the price of
several organs on eBay.

Thanks to being distracted by my friend Dave's site, I stumbled into these very nice printable dungeon floor tiles. Slightly bigger at 30mm square, but still most excellent and a perfect complement to my Games Workshop Dungeon Floor Plans from 1989. Uncut and intact, I have plans for those beauties that I'll be sharing in due time...

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Terry Pratchett is probably one of the finest writers of fantasy out there. Yes, he's funny as hell, but it's his slightly absurd view of our own world that infuses his Discworld with it's life.

BBC Four Xtra has been running a few dramatizations of his best known books. Wyrd Sisters, the first one to deal with Granny Weatherwax and her coven properly, is a great riff on Shakespeare- check it out. It's a great place to jump into the Discworld for the first time, and the link is good for about a week, so hop to it.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

It seemed as easy to do two blogs as one, so heres my personal space to rant into the ether about what interests me: games (both console and boardgames) movies, comics and anything else that grabs my fancy.

Lost in the Comics Industry since 1996.
Clients have included: Marvel, DC/Wildstorm, IDW, Image, 2000AD, Mongoose Games and Editions Delcourt.
Extensive experience handling licensed properties for publishing for more then seventeen years.
Twice-nominated as FAVORITE COMIC COLORIST for the UK's EAGLE AWARDS.
All-ages Fantasy FARSEEKER now running occasionally at Act-i-vate.